Nice chest up CDV of a Confederate officer wearing a light-colored, high collared, double-breasted frockcoat. Under close examination the two horizontal bars of a 1^st lieutenant can be seen on the collar.

Contrast and clarity are very good. Mount and paper have been trimmed.

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for GURNEY’S…NATCHEZ. Written over the imprint and covering the reverse is a period pencil ID of “CAPT. ADOLPHUS MEYERS” along with some collector information in pencil at bottom.

Research failed to reveal a captain bearing this name in the Confederate army. There was an Adolphus Meyers who served the Confederacy as a private in the Mountain County Company Missouri Militia. He appears on the roll of prisoners at Alton, Illinois in July of 1862. The record shows he was captured December 19^th (1861) and released February 27^th (1862.) Perhaps he had further service at a higher rank. If so the records have been lost. [AD][ph:L]

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